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FARM GATE.

No. 299,237. Patented May 27, 1884.

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CHARLES W. MANN, OF'HAYWVARD, CALIFORNIA.

FARM-GATE.

ITBPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,237, dated May27, 1884.

Application filed December 28, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. MANN, of Hayward, county of Alameda, andState of California, have invented an Improvement in Farm-Gates; and Ihereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descripti onthereof.

My invention relates to certain improvements in gates of that classwhich both slide and swing; and it consists in the combination ofdevices hereinafter described and claimed.

By reference to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of thegate. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through the posts B, G G, and D,and a top view of the gate, showing it open. Fig. 3 is a part section ofthe gate and an elevation-of the posts 0 O and D, taken from the line yy, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a view of the brace I.

A is a gate. B is the post upon which it closes and is latched, and C Gare two posts between which it slides and is turned. The gate A slidesthrough a mortise equal to its own height, made in a post, D, and itsupper rail also slides through a shorter post, E. The two posts havepulleys F F fixed in them below the top rail of the gate, so that it maytravel easily upon them. These posts are united at the top by horizontalbars G, and diagonal braces H extend from the top of the shorter post Eto the bottom of the post D, thus forming a frame within which the gatetravels onthe rollers, and slides back until it is half opened andnearly balanced on the frame. The post D is pivoted between thediagonally-placed posts 0 C, so as to turn, and thus completely open orclose the gate. In order to strengthen these posts and prevent theirbeing racked or separated by the strain of the swinging gate and frame,I employ peculiar braces I, which are perforated in the center toreceive the pintles or pivot-pins of the post D at top and bottom. Thesebraces are forked at each end, and have flanges J turned up on eachfork. These flanges fit upon two sides of each post at right angles witheach other, and are screwed or bolted to them,- one brace being fixed atthe top and the other at the bottom, so that the two are held firmly andrigidly together. Between these braces and the metal rings which arefitted upon the top and bottom of the journal-posts are washers, K,which are made conical in shape, tapering from the outer edges of therings toward the central pivotholes, and about half an inch thick. Thelower edge of the rail, which travels upon the rollers, has a strip ofmetal, L, fixed to it by countersunk screws, and shaped to fit thegrooves in the rollers. This reduces friction and the wear of the edgeof the rail when the gate is pushed back and forward.

I am aware that sliding gates guided between and upondiagonally-arranged posts are not new, nor do I claim such, broadly, asmy invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a gate mounted so as to slide in a frame which has its pivot-poststanding between two diagonally-fixed posts, 0, the braces I, havingflanges J turned up on their ends, so as to clasp two sides of the poststo which they are secured, substantially as herein described.

2. The combination, in a gate mounted so as to slide in a frame whichhas a pivot journaled between two diagonally-fixed posts, 0, ofpivot-pins turning in horizontal braces I, having flanges J, with thetapering or conical washers K, surrounding the pivots of the slottedpost D, all constructed to operate substantially as and for the purposeset forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

Vitnesses: CHARLES YV. MANN.

J. W. HINES, J. N. MOORE.

